Modern population

Yemenite Mahra

Yemenite_Mahra

Yemenite Mahra is a modern reference population in Genoplot's G25 reference catalogue (Yemenite_Mahra), with 9 samples from Al Mahrah, Yemen.

Its nearest neighbours among modern populations are Sudan Arab Rashaayda, Yemenite Al Jawf and Saudi, and among ancient ones Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria), Jordan (Early Bronze Age) and Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt).

Period
Modern
Country
Yemen
Origin
Al Mahrah, Yemen
Sampled near
Al Mahrah 16.80, 51.73
Samples
9
Catalogue
Yemenite_Mahra

Nearest populations

Distance between population averages in scaled G25 space, ×100. Lower is closer. It says who resembles this population, not who descends from it; an nMonte model tests that.

Modern
#PopulationDistance
1Sudan Arab RashaaydaSudan_Arab_Rashaayda2.01
2Yemenite Al JawfYemenite_Al_Jawf2.36
3SaudiSaudi2.38
4Bedouin BBedouinB2.56
5Yemenite Ma'ribYemenite_Ma'rib2.97
6Saudi NajdSaudi_Najd3.02
7Yemenite JewYemenite_Jew3.15
8Yemenite Al BaydaYemenite_Al_Bayda3.24
9Saudi MeccaSaudi_Mecca3.54
10Saudi JizanSaudi_Jizan3.75
Ancient
#PopulationDistance
1Tell Qarassa Umayyad (Medieval, Syria)Syria_TellQarassa_Umayyad3.94
2Jordan (Early Bronze Age)Jordan_EBA5.60
3Third Intermediate Period (Iron Age, Egypt)Egypt_ThirdIntermediatePeriod7.01
4Levant Beirut IAIII Egyptian (Iron Age)Levant_Beirut_IAIII_Egyptian7.03
5IBA (Bronze Age, Israel)Israel_IBA7.56
6Hellenistic (Antiquity)Hellenistic7.66
7Late (Pre-Pottery Neolithic B, Jordan)Jordan_Late_PPNB8.06
8Israel (Chalcolithic)Israel_C8.71
9Natufian (Hunter-Gatherer, Israel)Israel_Natufian8.95
10Jordan (Late Bronze Age)Jordan_LBA9.00

Individuals 9

The samples behind this population in the catalogue. Sex, date, site and haplogroups are from the Allen Ancient DNA Resource; Y-DNA calls are mostly automatic, from the shown terminal SNP.

SampleSexSite
Y311MMahra
Y312MMahra
Y313MMahra
Y325MMahra
Y326MMahra
Y330MMahra
Y341FMahra
Y345FMahra
Y349FMahra